The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-09
WHITNEY AS A WORKER.
A MAN WHO CAN DO MANY THINGS
WITH SUCCESS.

ture-SOCldl circles ReVOluClOnlZ6Q
by the Whirl of Time-Dr. Sewers
Case to be Dropped by the Medical
Society.
WASHINGTON. May T.--Secretar Whitney
Fan do more things, at the same time, with
success than any other man closely connect
ed with the administration. Some people
labor under the delusion that, because Sec
rotary Whitney is so great leader socially,
he will some day be shown up big failure
as Secretary of the Navy. The croakers
were never in their lives more completely
mistaken. He does many things brilliantly,
and without failing in any respect manages
to show some pretty solid business successes.
He is a worker without system. He comes
down to his department at 9, 10 or II, as
the case may be, or possibly he don't come
down at all. Sometimes he
comes back after lunch, and
other times he prefers to adorn society.
Properly speaking he has no habits of work.
He writes a few minutes or few hours at
his desk, dictates to his secretary until he
gets through with his pile of letters or let's
the secretary wade through them himself,
rings for naval officers one after the other,
looks through reports or makes someone
stance, and in the same irregular, indescrib-
able way gives some attention to the hum
dredS of matters that constantly have to go
to the Secretary. To most people he is a
fashionably dressed young man, with some
money of his own and a still more wealthy
wife. who figures in all the upper-ten social
events in Washington. He is supposed to
attend all the big dinners, give plenty of
of them himself, stand as a sort of centre Of
attraction at all great receptions, wine
and dine nabobS and titled for
eigners at his country seat and
last, but not least, to have invented new
social dissipation with religious tendencies
in the way of a christening entertainment.
With such a round of excitement it has been
little difficult to see how he managed to
spare any time for the Navy Department,
but he does it nevertheless and is conduct
ing the Navy Department more successfully
that any of his predecessors in recent wears.
However, neither the work room down
town nor the one at Grasslands have much
acquaintance with Mr.. Whitney. He is too
active a man for mach indoor study, and if
business does not occupy him he is enter
tanning his /. friends or sending for
more friends to entertain. Mrs. Whit
ney's entertainments are famous, and it
is worth noting that she is almost the only
woman in Washington whose husband takes
an interest in her society doingS and helps
her to receive her friends. They both like
to entertain, and their harmonious opinion
on the subject may have something to do
with their unvarying success. Sometimes
they have an object in view in some of their
invitations. When old Senator Payne was
about to be compelled to answer charges of
bribery and corruption ON securing his seat,
the Senators likely to be concerned in the
affair had plenty of chances to taste the
Whitney dinners and champagne. Nothing
oI I,,4 -
the Senators insists that it fairly rained in
vitations until the danger was over. At all
their receptions there is plenty of wine,
though the Secretary does not drink much
himself, and some of the old-fashioned Gus
toms, which included a generous sideboard,
are very thoroughly kept up.
SOCIETY TURNED ToPsY TURvY.
The change in the administration and the
whirlgig of time has turned social circles at
the capital topsy turvy. The Sins" and
''outs" of the social world are as pronounced
as those in the world of politics. The Gins"
are the shining lights in the society world of
to-day, while the outs were the leaders
during the Republican regime That the
latter most cordially deSpise the favored
ones of to-day can easily be imagined
The social events of the new regime in
point of grandeur have completely eclipsed
those under preceding administrations This
much more plentifully supplied with money
than were the leaders under the recent Re
publican administrations. The army and
navy set formerly ran social events, and a
man who was not rugged out in brass but
tons and gold stripes was looked upon as of
not much consequence. Now, however,
wealthy civilians are the leaders, and the
men in blue and brass occupy less exalted
position in the social scale. Under the new
regime the social entertainments have been
given with such splendor that the pace soon
became too warm and too extravagant for
the brass buttons. Washington, however,
is city of changes, both sc dal and politi-
cal, and nothing that occurs is surprising.
Women come here for few brief months,
cut conspicuous figure in socety's spec
tacular parade, and then like meteor sud
denly drop out of sight and mind. Some OF
the members of the Fiftieth Congress have
been here with their wives to select board
ing places The wife of a newly elected
Congressman is really an object for
pity. At her home she was worthy
woman, who did much to secure her hus-
bands election by her popular manners and
her good heart To her it was great thing
to become the wife of member of Con
gress, but on arriving in Washington she
found that she had only taken the first STEP
toward social distinction. 1t was not long
before change commenced. From a
nOueSb la0y, IN a plaln black SILK and smooth
brown locks, she burst into an ornamental
gown of light satin, loaded with beads
which was not high enough in the neck by
three inches, and her head had in front d
mass of frizzles, which hid her broad brow
and made her look like an idiot or a Shet
land pony. Before her diamond-decked fin
gers had been out of the domestic disf
water long enough for their knuckles to re
cover from their greasy odor of parboiling
she rode about in her hired coupe and CAV,
her orders to the coachman i'm fault
finding tone. Her days becam,
round of ceaseless toadyism, and hel
nights were wild revels, with champagne
oysters, flowers, punch, lost temper ant
bitter disapDointments. Now her husband
has not been reelected She must return L
her village home and as she drops out of lif,
here not ripple on the tide of fashionabl,
society will show where she has gone dowr
and the wife of the new member will in hel
turn take the place of the one that ha!
gone.
DIR. Sewers CASE.
At first it was generally believed that DR.
Sewers vaporings alleging that President
Cleveland was in a very precarious condi
ton physically would give rise to no serious
results. Then the medical society took tn,
matter up and seemed inclined TO make il
self ridiculous by sitting down on Dr. Sow
ers. The subject was referred TO stand
inp cOnmittnq with instructions IN raport